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...nation is in a serious downturn. Bush advisers say the economy will show negative growth for the fourth quarter at an annualized rate of nearly 3%. Says a senior analyst: "Chances are better than fifty-fifty that the first quarter of 1991 will be negative too." If that proves correct, the economic contraction would fit the generally accepted definition of a recession. Despite the bad news, the White House does not plan to change its wait-and-see attitude. "Nobody here or up on Capitol Hill has anything in their bag of tricks to help the economy right now," says...
Therefore another goal of the committee can be seen: to incite students so heavily that the posters would be removed almost immediately. As a result of the predictable immediate removal, the committee would hope to gain martyr status, become a darling of Harvard's politically correct and wait patiently for students to form the opinion that right here at Harvard, just as in the Occupied Territories, where Palestinian freedom of expression is stifled by the Israelis in power, the discussion of the plight of the Palestinians is being squelched by the agents of the powerful international Jewish conspiracy...
...correct that the problem isn't so much a vacuum of leadership as it is a political brawl for leadership -- among the supporters of the human genome project, the AIDS lobby, cancer researchers...
While no one is about to argue that Saddam's concession absolves his hostage taking in the first place -- his apology last week for behavior that "may not have been correct" notwithstanding -- it does demonstrate that he responds to pressure. That somewhat undercuts the belief that nothing short of war is likely to nudge Saddam out of Kuwait. "The Bush Administration ought to have more faith in its own diplomatic skills," said Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd. "Saddam's pledge to release hostages is pretty good evidence that you don't have to pull the trigger to get his attention...
...actual count -- well, actual approximate count -- the Australian rock band INXS has played 2,000 performances during the past 13 years. And what have its members got to show for it? Folks still have trouble with the name. "In excess" would be phonetically correct, but it lacks the cool mystery of those four uppercase letters, which make the lads loom large, like something mythic: six electrified Druids with some new rhythmic spells to weave...